While I carried out a deal of dead heading this morning,
Jackie and Martin continued path clearance, coming together at
the T junction formed by Jackie’s Brick and Martin’s Phantom Paths.
This afternoon I finished reading ‘Monsieur’ by Laurence Durrell, and posted https://derrickjknight.com/2023/06/29/monsieur/
This evening we all dined on tasty roast duck; crisp Yorkshire pudding; roast potatoes, some crisp, some soft and sweet; crunchy carrots, and firm broccoli, with which Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I finished the chianti.
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Quite incredible – obsessed with the new approach. Thanks a lot, Geoff
Inthe first photograph of the blog post, is that Rod Stewart’s head that Martin is dead heading?
Ha ha, good one!
Could be, John 🙂 Thanks very much
HA! Thanks for the snort-laugh!
Lots of time-consuming work that’s so essential in maintaining your beautiful garden 🙂
Thank you so much, Rosaliene
Looks like a lot of work with a successful outcome. Another tasty sounding dinner.
Thanks very much, Eugi
Your dinner sounds delicious.
Thank you very much, Sherry
You guys wouldn’t want to do that work here today at 100F degrees! ???? 112F is coming soon too.
Great team-work Derrick, the garden is looking superb …
Thank you very much, Ivor. We are getting there
Well done to all the crew
I imagine working toward the junction made the work more fun, especially when they got there.
Yes. Thanks very much, JoAnna
Looks like another productive day!
Thanks very much, Liz
You’re welcome, Derrick.
What a wonderful trio of garden workers! Your hard work, dedication, TLC, and love are reflected in the garden!
(((HUGS))) ❤️
Thank you so much, Carolyn X
I managed to slog through Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet. I am glad I didn’t give up, yet I had a difficult time relating to the characters. There was one book – forget which – where he describes a marshy spot that I think was especially well written. It helped me get past the tedious people in the books but realize Durrell was a brilliant writer. At the time, it seemed the time to read this quartet would have been when I was the same age of the characters and had the same narcissistic view of my presence on earth! (One of the questions asked by one person was “How many books in The Alexandria Quartet? LOL! That was in a list of questions about the quartet and the author.)
On the other hand, Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy I read in one marathon five day read. Same country, different cultural references. In the final page, the blind and dementia-confused elderly spiritual advisor to the family wanders around the streets of Cairo, then asks a Modern Egyptian Man for directions to paradise. The Modern Egyptian Man gives a literal description to some actual place, symbolic of the decline of spirituality in modern Egypt, clearly the lost soul in the picture. I can’t think of another read that tied the whole story together with such finality.
Thank you very much for this, Doug. I still have Clea to return to. Maybe if I now grasp the metafiction idea I will understand it better. Th Cairo Trilogy looks easier.
The Cairo Trilogy is easier because it has no pretensions, just great story telling. The Alexandria Quartett scared me away from reading any further works by Durrell I fear. Another writer who is a slog is Malcolm Lowry. It took several foreign language dictionaries, including a Nahuatl (!) dictionary to get through it, and I found the drunken Firmen tedious in the end.
Thanks again
It sounds like a very productive day, and Jackie and Martin look delighted to work on the beautiful garden.
Thank you so much, Merril
A lot of hard work in that garden, but when you sit back and look at your finished product – it sure looks good, doesn’t it?!
I haven’t had duck and roasted potatoes in years – watch out or I’ll be moving in with you!!
Thanks a lot, GP 🙂
Another productive day with good results, Derrick.
Thanks very much, Eugi
Lots of work in that garden!
Thanks very much, Laurie
So much hard work!
Thank you very much, Dolly
My pleasure, Derrick.
I am in awe of the hard work that Jackie puts into the beautiful garden. The enviable results are stunning.
Thanks very much from us both, Sue
You all are hard workers, Derrick. I am glad Martin is there to help you and Jackie.
Thank you so much, Lavinia.
A gardener’s work is never done
Thank you very much, Sheree
There’s no better work than the one done in your garden 🙂
Thank you very much, Ribana
I got a kick out of your friend who said, “I haven’t had duck and roasted potatoes in years – watch out or I’ll be moving in with you!!” I was thinking the same thing!!
Thank you very much, Jan